Bourton
Bourton is a Village in the county of Oxfordshire.
There are great places to visit near Bourton including some great ancient sites, cities and shopping centres.
There are a several good ancient sites in the Bourton area like The Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men.
Oxford is one of Bourton's best, nearby cities to visit in Bourton.
Don't miss Westgate Oxford's shopping centres if visiting the area around Bourton.
Bourton History
There are some historic monuments around Bourton:
- Two Highworth circles 600m south east of North Leaze Farm
- Bowl barrow 400m north-west of Aldbourne Warren Farm
- Watchfield Anglo-Saxon cemetery
- Roman villa 530m west of Stanton House
- Medieval settlement and associated ridge and furrow south-west of Eastrop Farm
- Bowl barrow 200m north of Downs Barn
- Bowl barrow 1km west of Sheppard's Farm Dairy
- Ditch on Boydon Hole Farm
- Bowl barrow 850m north west of North Farm
- Disc barrow on Burderop Down, 1km north-east of Upper Herdswick Farm
- Uffington Castle: a univallate hillfort immediately north of the Ridgeway on Whitehorse Hill
- Neolithic long barrow and Romano-British inhumation cemetery 70m north of Uffington Castle on Whitehorse Hill
- Two bowl barrows 400m south of Whitecomb Plantation
- Whitefield Hill ditch
- Four Highworth circles 150m north east of Pickett's Copse
- Highworth circle 350m north east of Common Farm
- Alfred's Castle univallate hillfort
- Medieval settlement remains at Sevenhampton
- Bowl barrow 150m north of Half Moon Wood
- Fognam Clump field system
- Linear boundary earthwork west of Liddington Castle
- Highworth circle 520m north west of North Leaze Farm
- Tithe barn
- Fognam Clump and adjacent field system
- Bowl barrow 350m south-west of Harley Bushes, Bishopstone Downs
- Highworth circle 470m north east of North Leaze Farm
- Bronze Age bowl barrow and a pair of Anglo-Saxon burial mounds 70m south of the White Horse on Whitehorse Hill
- The White Horse hill figure 170m NNE of Uffington Castle on Whitehorse Hill
- Stone circle immediately north east of Day House, Coate
- Roman villa 630m south west of Starveall Farm
- Barrow cemetery 200m south of Whitecomb Plantation
- Highworth circle 200m north east of Common Farm
- Little Coxwell camp
- Bowl barrow on Sugar Hill
- The Giant's Grave round barrow cemetery
- Liddington Castle
- Bowl barrow on Hinton Downs
- Bowl barrow 280m north of Downs Barn
- Medieval settlement and prehistoric field system 520m north east and 760m east of Snap Farm
- Disc barrow 780m north east of North Farm
- Site of Roman town, W of Wanborough House
- Cross dyke and field banks in Peaks Wood 210m east of Hellscomb Cottages
- Four Highworth circles east of North Leaze Farm
- Bowl barrow 880m north east of Lower Upham Farm
- Three Highworth circles 600m east of North Leaze Farm
- Medieval settlement, cultivation remains and boundary 550m north west of Upham Hall
- Lynchets 850m west of Ridgeway Farm
- Bowl barrow on Sugar Hill
- Dragon Hill
- Sites near Manor Ham Barn
- Two Highworth circles 250m and 325m north of Eastrop Farm
- Medieval settlement remains immediately south east of Fresden Farm
- Long barrow 700m north of Liddington Warren Farm
- Bowl barrow 700m south west of Liddington Warren Farm
- Hall Place
- Highworth circle 200m south east of Common Farm
- Hardwell Camp promontory fort
- Two bowl barrows in Shipley Bottom
- Badbury camp
- Bourton village cross
- Three round barrows forming the core of a dispersed barrow cemetery on Idstone Down
- Bowl barrow 85m north east of Day House Cottages
- Boundary ditch E of Near Down
- Wyke monastic grange and section of 18th century turnpike road, 780m south of Tudor Farm
- Bowl barrow on Farncombe Down, 500m south west of Baydon Hole
- Wayland's Smithy chambered long barrow, including an earlier barrow and Iron Age and Roman boundary ditches
Places to see near Bourton
Lakes near Bourton
Canals near Bourton
Rivers near Bourton
- Thame upstream of Aylesbury
- Cuttle Brook
- Dorton, Chearsley and Waddesdon Brooks
- Stoke Brook Aylesbury
- Baldon Brook (South of Oxford)
- Holton Brook and tributaries
- Chinor Brook and Sydenham Brook
- Kingsey Cuttle Brook and tributaries at Thame
- Latchford Brook at Tetsworth
- Hardwick Brook (Source to Thame)
- Lewknor Brook
- Thame (Scotsgrove Brook to Thames)
- Scotsgrove Brook (upstream Kingsey Cuttle Brook)
- Peppershill and Shabbington Brooks
- Worminghall Brook and tributaries
- Thame (Aylesbury to Scotsgrove Brook)
- Haseley Brook
- Chalgrove Brook
- Bear Brook and Wendover Brook
- Fleet Marston Brook, Denham Brook, Pitchcott Brook west
- Berrick Stream and Lady Brook
- Wye (High Wycombe fire station to Thames)
- Sulham Brook
- Hamble Brook
- Mill Brook and Bradfords Brook system, Wallingford
- Cholsey Brook and tributaries
- Hughenden Stream
- Ewelme Stream (Source to Thames)
- Ewelme Stream (Source to Thames)
- Thames (Reading to Cookham)
- Wye (Source to High Wycombe fire station)
- Thames Wallingford to Caversham
- Pang
- Letcombe Brook
- Ock and tributaries (Land Brook confluence to Thames)
- Sandford Brook (source to Ock)
- Frilford and Marcham Brook
- Childrey Brook and Norbrook at Common Barn
- Ock (to Cherbury Brook)
- Childrey and Woodhill Brooks
- Stutfield Brook (source to Ock)
- Ginge Brook and Mill Brook
- Thames (Evenlode to Thame)
- Moor Ditch and Ladygrove Ditch
- Northfield Brook (Source to Thames) at Sandford
- Cow Common Brook and Portobello Ditch
- Cherwell (Bletchingdon to Ray)
- Bloxham Brook (Source to Sor Brook)
- Highfurlong Brook (to Cherwell)
- Hanwell Brook
- Tadmarton Stream (Source to Sor Brook)
- Upper Swere (Source to Wigginton)
- Hook Norton Brook (Source to Swere)
- Sor Brook (Broughton to Cherwell)
- Farthinghoe Stream (Source to Cherwell) and tributaries
- Swere (Wigginton to Cherwell)
- Ockley Brook and Croughton Brook (Source to Cherwell)
- Ashby Brook (Source to Cherwell)
- Bayswater Brook
- Deddington Brook (Source to Cherwell)
- Sor Brook (Source to Broughton)
- Cherwell (Ray to Thames) and Woodeaton Brook
- Cherwell (Source to Trafford Bridge)
- Chacombe Brook (Source to Cherwell)
- Cherwell (Ashby Brook to Cropredy)
- Clayton and Wormleighton Brook, Source to Highfurlong Brook
- Cherwell (Cropredy to Nell Bridge)
- Shutford Stream (Source to Sor Brook)
- Cherwell (Nell Bridge to Bletchingdon)
- Littlestock Stream to tributary of Evenlode at Shipton
- Evenlode (Source to Four Shires S) and Longborough Stream
- Glyme (Enstone to Dorn)
- Little Compton Brook and tributaries (Source to Evenlode)
- Evenlode (Bledington to Glyme confluence)
- Glyme (Dorn confluence to Evenlode)
- Evenlode (Compton Bk to Bledington Bk) and 4 Shires
- Heythorpe Stream and tributaries
- Cornwell Brook and tributaries (Source to Evenlode)
- Coldron and Taston Brooks
- Sars Brook (source to Evenlode downstream Bledington)
- Bledington Brook (Source to Evenlode)
- Evenlode (Glyme to Thames)
- Glyme (Source to Enstone)
- Westcote Brook (source to Evenlode at Bledington)
- Dorn (Source to Glyme)